125 Quotes by Michael Pena

It feels good, pouring your heart out over something, and then all of a sudden people are getting inspired.

I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

Regardless of whatever job you do, you want to see the importance of it or how it can be important. I think by inspiring the people that I come from - if I inspire anyone - would be worth it.

Some of my favorite actors are Gene Wilder and Eddie Murphy back in the day - that's mainly what me and my brothers watched when we were kids.

Drama is basically what I do, so it's a compliment that people think it's hard for me to get back to drama.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

I'd love to work with Woody Allen.

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.